(SIGNED) Everybody's Fool (North Bath #2) by Richard Russo PBDJ 1ST 2016 VGOOD

Description: Hardcover Cloth 477 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition 2016. Elegant grey boards with dark grey spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks or highlights. Previous owner's bookplate on front endsheet along with a date in pen. Book Well kept and carefully stored. Slight shelf wear with undamaged corners. Tight binding with good hinges. An unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover is smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Flatsigned on title page. Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody's Fool (1993) a confident, assured novel that] sweeps the reader up. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it s hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years . . . the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren't still best friends . . . Sully's son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police who s obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife might've been about to run off with, before dying in a freak accident . . . Bath's mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, whose wife problems are, if anything, even more pressing . . . and then there's Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally, there's Charice Bond a light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymer s office as well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station. Everybody s Fool is filled with humor, heart, hard times and people you can't help but love, possibly because their various faults make them so stridently human. This is classic Russo and a crowning achievement from one of the greatest storytellers of our time. RICHARD RUSSO is the author of seven previous novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody's Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.

Price: 45 USD

Location: San Antonio, Texas

End Time: 2024-12-03T20:48:15.000Z

Shipping Cost: 8.38 USD